YaBB install help video1. what yabb forum are you running and the url2. describe in as much detail as you can what happens and also post screenshots if you can3. please be patient we live in different time zones and have other commitments but we will help youas bill and ted say (Be excellent to each other)

Also check and see what upgrades your host may have done. Sometimes when Perl or the server get upgraded, other settings get changed - like turning on mod_Perl or mod_security, or file ownership changes and even CHMODs have been known to change.

If you only have one solution to a problem you're not trying hard enough!

Also check and see what upgrades your host may have done. Sometimes when Perl or the server get upgraded, other settings get changed - like turning on mod_Perl or mod_security, or file ownership changes and even CHMODs have been known to change.

I had the same line of thought. I checked the chmods and they are all good and ownership has not seemed to change. Maybe the perl upgrade to 5.10.1 horked something, but it puzzles me as to why it took 3 days to finally cause an ISE.

This is ran on a VPS, and i have total control of the guest. Nothing was updated except the things listed in the OP. I am going to try the newest version of YaBB today and see if it is just a perl bug...

I am going to try the newest version of YaBB today and see if it is just a perl bug...

it is not a perl bug but perl coding standards where updated so from a specific perl version all YaBB forums running that are older than 2.5.2 and perl is updated to a specific perl version I think it is 5.10 and above YaBB AE2.5 and under will stop working Dandello will have more info on this than me.

YaBB install help video1. what yabb forum are you running and the url2. describe in as much detail as you can what happens and also post screenshots if you can3. please be patient we live in different time zones and have other commitments but we will help youas bill and ted say (Be excellent to each other)

OK, found I was already running 2.5.2, so I used the 2.5.4 branch from that tarball. And it seems to be working! So, I will plan a migration of all the data to 2.5.4 ASAP. Chalk it up to yet another case of early adoption biting me in the hind-quarters

You guys know of any caveats I need to be aware of for this transition?

After getting the backup, check and make sure all the required modules got loaded with your new Perl install. My suspicion is that on the machine you're seeing the error, you logged out and part of the log in function is messed up. (Your work machine had the proper cookies and so by-passed the messed up stuff.)

If you only have one solution to a problem you're not trying hard enough!

After getting the backup, check and make sure all the required modules got loaded with your new Perl install. My suspicion is that on the machine you're seeing the error, you logged out and part of the log in function is messed up. (Your work machine had the proper cookies and so by-passed the messed up stuff.)

Well, I reinstalled/updated all the Perl Modules and it still didn't work. So, I took the nuclear option and deleted the whole deployment, redeployed the forum and restored the personalized stuff from the backup. I dont know where it went sideways, but we are back at 100% now...

@xnoddyx: I think we need to keep an eye on this one - maybe set up a test server with that version of Apache and Perl when you or JonB have some time?

I don't have a Linux system I will see about setting one up when I have some time on my hands but I think I see what the prob my be if it is not a typo in the OPMatt_B. wrote on Mar 30th, 2013 at 10:13pm:

i386 and in the last one is i486 will that not do something to the install as I say I am a windows man not Linux but will try to get a Linux system up and running to test on.

YaBB install help video1. what yabb forum are you running and the url2. describe in as much detail as you can what happens and also post screenshots if you can3. please be patient we live in different time zones and have other commitments but we will help youas bill and ted say (Be excellent to each other)

Maybe we'll leave to JonB. (My last foray into Linux land left me with an Apache/perl install where I can't find the blasted config files to turn off mod_perl and a bunch of other stuff. At least with Windows, if I tell it to install Wamp/Xamp to c:\ and the web files are on F:\ it believes me. And I can find the blasted config files.)